Radio Free Alice tell us about supporting Geese and their “coming of age” debut album

Aussie indie upstarts Radio Free Alice caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2026 to talk about Anglophile sound, playing with “genius” Cameron Winter and Geese , plans to move to London, and what to expect from their “coming of age” debut album ‘What’s In Between’.

READ MORE: Radio Free Alice: Melbourne rockers making the case for straight-up indie royalty After smashing an early afternoon set in The Gallery set – one of our highlights of the weekend – frontman Noah Learmonth, drummer Lochie Dowd and guitarist Jules Paradiso came and sat on the NME couch where they they reflected on their set and the “hefty weight” that comes with playing a festival with the history and legacy of Reading & Leeds.

“We were playing at 2pm, but we were really happy with the crowd.

It was a full tent and it was sick,” said Learmonth.

“I feel like this is the one festival that, being from Australia, you’re so aware of – this and Glastonbury .

Nirvana at Reading and all these legendary gigs means that it carries a particular weight that other festivals don’t.” Radio Free Alice backstage at Reading 2026.

Credit: Andy Ford for NME Off the back of a packed summer of festivals and just a couple of months away from the release their long-awaited debut album, Radio Free Alice have been enjoying a runaway 2026 as recent singles ‘Kick In The Shins’ and ‘Crying For You’ dominate indie airwaves and take on a life of their own online.

The year started with the band being thrown right in the deep end, supporting Geese back in their native Australia.

“It was crazy to see Geese in person,” Learmonth told NME .

“Cameron Winter and Geese have been on my phone incessantly, so to see him in person and be talking to him backstage was so strange, so topical.

That was sick.

It was amazing to share a stage with the most talked-about band in the world.” Does Cameron have linear conversations or do things tend to veer off into another universe? “He seems, as you’d expect, to be super-smart to me,” the frontman replied.

“He’s an interesting guy.

He played a solo gig in Melbourne the night before, and we were talking about how in Melbourne there’s a law where you have to have a support act.